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OUTCOME AFTER SEVERE HEAD INJURY DEFINITIONS AND PREDICTIONS
Author(s) -
Jennett Bryan
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb130352.x
Subject(s) - neurosurgery , citation , library science , head injury , general hospital , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , computer science
SIR HUGH CAIRNS'S greatest contribution was undoubtedly the organization of care for patients with head injuries during World War II. This included the keeping of careful notes as a basis for subsequent reviewof the results, in order to formulate a future policy-, This was in the tradition of Harvey Cushing, whose pupil Cairns was, and who had given similar leadership during World War I. As a pupil of Cairns myself, I should like to think that the work reported here might be seen as a logical continuation of his concern with the problem of head injury. Two statements made by Cairns in his account in 1947 of the war experience provide a text for this lecture. He wrote;'